Question regarding a lodger leaving my house

Invite him for a 'peace offering' chat. Lace his coffee with potent yet undetectable drugs and once he has fallen unconscious debone him like a fish. When he is little more than a sack of boneless skin, cut a vertical line in the back area, just below the shoulder blades and put on your new skin suit.

Spend the rest of the day dancing around the house, screaming about how you saved four days rent.
 
[FnG]magnolia;25022036 said:
Invite him for a 'peace offering' chat. Lace his coffee with potent yet undetectable drugs and once he has fallen unconscious debone him like a fish. When he is little more than a sack of boneless skin, cut a vertical line in the back area, just below the shoulder blades and put on your new skin suit.

Spend the rest of the day dancing around the house, screaming about how you saved four days rent.
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An update.

He owed me 6 days rent. I let him off 2 as I said I would and took 4 from his deposit.

Glad to see the back of him, the spoilt A-hole. House all to myself again :).

Thanks for the help GD and the daft answers raised a smile!
 
Sounds like you two had a lot of sexual tension between you. Should've just got it out of your system and slept with him. :p
 
DisrupTor75 said:
Never have a friend for a lodger. Tried it twice, never again. :mad:
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How on earth is this supposed to work? Do you just ignore them for the time they are living with you so you don't have to let emotions cloud your judgement over whether to take money off them? Surely if someone is living with you then even if you didn't know them before they moved in, they're your friend by the time they move out.
 
Caged said:
How on earth is this supposed to work? Do you just ignore them for the time they are living with you so you don't have to let emotions cloud your judgement over whether to take money off them? Surely if someone is living with you then even if you didn't know them before they moved in, they're your friend by the time they move out.
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It is much easier if they are not a friend before they move in though.
Tennants who are friends often get away with more.

I suppose a friend who is not close would be OK. A close friend would be a complete disaster imo, but it could also work brilliantly, you just never know until it is too late.

My lodger would have three friends over and the first I would know about it is when they arrive on my drive and start wandering into the house.
 
Caged said:
How on earth is this supposed to work? Do you just ignore them for the time they are living with you so you don't have to let emotions cloud your judgement over whether to take money off them? Surely if someone is living with you then even if you didn't know them before they moved in, they're your friend by the time they move out.
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No not a case of ignoring them, but one thing you will find is for the 1st few weeks things are great, they will share the load, pay out when needed for lekky gas ect but the longer they are living with you the more things deteriorate. be they late with cash, messy, argumentative....it's just not worth it imo. I am all for helping friends out in a time of need but they can also be the worst people you can have living with you.

OpenToSuggestions said:
Tennants who are friends often get away with more.

My lodger would have three friends over and the first I would know about it is when they arrive on my drive and start wandering into the house.
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^^ this. I had the same problem with "friends of friends" coming over and generally making a mess, while my friend who was lodging with me got more and more difficult to work with and as soon as you pull them up on things it goes downhill fast.
 
OpenToSuggestions said:
An update.

He owed me 6 days rent. I let him off 2 as I said I would and took 4 from his deposit.

Glad to see the back of him, the spoilt A-hole. House all to myself again :).

Thanks for the help GD and the daft answers raised a smile!
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I really don't understand this mentality - you wanted him gone but you also wanted him to be gone in 30 days... then 28 days but not 24 days.... and because it had to be 28 days he then 'owed' you for 4 days rent?????

This might make sense if you were renting the room out again, needed the notice period to be enforced so you had time to find a replacement lodger etc..etc.. but you're not. You're happy to have the house to yourself.... it just doesn't make sense - he wanted to move out earlier surely that's win/win for both of you without the need to deduct further rent from the deposit - would you have been less happy if he'd actually stayed for those extra four days which you're charging him for out of spite anyway?
 
dowie said:
I really don't understand this mentality - you wanted him gone but you also wanted him to be gone in 30 days... then 28 days but not 24 days.... and because it had to be 28 days he then 'owed' you for 4 days rent?????

This might make sense if you were renting the room out again, needed the notice period to be enforced so you had time to find a replacement lodger etc..etc.. but you're not. You're happy to have the house to yourself.... it just doesn't make sense - he wanted to move out earlier surely that's win/win for both of you without the need to deduct further rent from the deposit - would you have been less happy if he'd actually stayed for those extra four days which you're charging him for out of spite anyway?
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Because it's in the contract :D.

Doesn't make any sense to me either, but I bet the OP felt like they were losing money somehow or something, when in reality there is no difference. The OP admitted at the beginning they didn't even really want a lodger!

Yes the lodger hasn't satisfied the notice period, but if he was you friend he might have felt that 3 weeks was close enough, especially if your finances didn't depend on finding another lodger. Badly dealt with, and looks like the OP has lost a friend over nothing.
 
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